Paul Kreibich

People who like Jazz feel the depth and soul and intelligence that the music expresses.

Jazz standards are our contribution to music history.

Jazz is not to be sliced into bites by mass marketing geniuses who assume we are mindless cattle.

There’s a spiritual satisfaction that one gets from listening and playing good Jazz.

Jazz music is the real deal.

Jazz music is our original American culture.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

I’m always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

It doesn’t have to be happy music to be inspiring.

Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn’t play like Wynton.

I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

Especially, I want my work-and the trios if possible-to sing.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Being so inescapably a part of it, I’ll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels and that’s too bad.

Albert King wasn’t my brother in blood, but he sure was my brother in Blues!

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

The radio makes hideous sounds.

Jazz without the Blues is like BBQ without the sauce.